Sacrifice Quotes — Page 28

Political Leader

“Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.”

Sacrifice Commitment Humble

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.”

Littles Sacrifice Little Things

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Mother Teresa

Missionary, Nun

“If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.”

Able Sacrifice

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”

Sacrifice Without Sacrifice

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.”

Sacrifice Wanted Return

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John Calvin

Theologian, Reformer

“Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.”

Heart Sacrifice Lord

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Martin Buber

Philosopher

“This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.”

Sacrifice Form Possibility

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Kurt Vonnegut

Novelist, Satirist

“During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.”

Years Sacrifice Dying

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Ernest Hemingway

Novelist

“I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”

Business Sacrifice Rain

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Leader, Politician

“I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.”

Blood Sacrifice History

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Connie Willis

Author

“To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.”

Dog Sacrifice Cost

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Paulo Coelho

Writer

“May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.”

Joy Understanding Sacrifice

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